• I now use GNU autoconf to generate an automatic configuration script. Compiling and installing on UNIX is now much easier, and should involve no hand-editing of files.
• There is a new option in .ldbrc called "usemycolors", which should be set to either "yes" or "no". If usemycolors=yes, all games started will be displayed with the color characters you specify in .ldbrc. Note that these may not be the same colors your opponent is displaying with, but ldb doesn't care. You will have to edit .ldbrc to set this option, since the default is "no". A lot of people had requested this.
• 8-bit character sets should now work when entering comments.
• Ldb now runs on MS-DOS under DJGPP, thanks to Bryan Larsen. You will need to get the PDCURSES package from comp.sources.misc, version 2.2 or better. Current ldb users will note a small change this caused to the ldb "blip" that goes in the subject line of mail messages. It used to be <=LDB=>, and is now [=LDB=]. This was never used by ldb anyway, but may be used by mail-sorting utilities such as procmail.
• The configure script now attempts to locate a mail program when ldb is configured, and attempts to set up the arguments for that mail command properly. It prefers the mailx or Mail command, and will tolerate rmail or mail. This becomes the default mail command for new users. Existing users' mail commands are not affected.
• If "delmail" is enabled, it will only delete mail files that contain at least one ldb packet. This should make it compatible with exmh and other mail utilities that maintain each message in a separate file.
• ldb is now distributed under the GNU GPL, detailed in the file COPYING. I have retained the old copyright in COPYING.OLD for your amusement.

A complete listing of the changes for each revision is in the comments at the top of main.c.